06-08-1896
Volume OC - Pages 98-100
Reno, Nevada
June 8, 1896
The Board of Regents met at their Office on Monday, June 8,
1896 at 9 o'clock A.M. Present: W. E. F. Deal, H. F. Fish and
H. S. Starrett, also President Stubbs.
Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
Annual Report of Receipts and Expenditures from the several funds
as per balance sheet of the Secretary was read. The matter of
expenses was taken up and considered as follows:
Mrs. Emery's salary reduced to One Hundred and Forty Dollars
per month.
Miss Bardenwerper's to Seventy Dollars per month.
Miss Ede to Fifty Dollars per month to take effect on and
after September 1, 1896.
Professor Jackson's salary of Sixty Two Dollars and Fifty
Cents in connection with the Mining Laboratory was to cease
on August 31, 1896.
On recommendation of President Stubbs, Professor Cowgill was
assigned to the Chair of English Language and Literature. Pro-
fessor Church was assigned to the Chair of History and English.
On motion of Regent Deal, seconded by Regent Starrett, the fol-
lowing resolution was passed:
WHEREAS it has become necessary to employ an Instructor in
Modern Languages and the means in the hands of the Board in-
sufficient to employ such Instructor and continue the employ-
ment of Lieutenant Hamilton; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, upon the report of the President of the University
that the further employment of Lieutenant Hamilton as In-
structor of Mathematics and French after August 31, 1896 be
and the same is hereby dispensed with and that the President
rearrange the duties of the Professors so that the duties
hereafter rendered by Lieutenant Hamilton be performed by
same and or more of the Professors and the President be
requested to nominate some qualified person as Instructor
of Modern Languages to act from and after September 1, 1896,
and upon the confirmation of such nomination, the salary of
such Instructor be fixed at the sum of Nine Hundred Dollars
per annum, payable in monthly installments of Seventy Five
Dollars.
On motion, it was ordered by the Board that cigarette smoking
by any student of the University be strictly prohibited and a
violation of this order will be visited by expulsion of the
offending student.
On motion, it is further ordered that the use of tobacco in any
form by any Officer, student or employee of the University upon
the University grounds or in the buildings by the same, is hereby
strictly prohibited.
The President and the members of the Faculty of the University
recommended that the Board grant the Degrees and Diplomas to
students in the several Departments of the University as follows
on certified copies hereto attached:
To the Hon. Board of Regents,
Gentlemen,
I hereby certify that the following students have completed the
course of study required in the School of Mines and are candi-
dates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science:
Andrew Hanson
John Michael Lafayette Henry
Arthur Page Mack
William Henry Segrave
In the School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; B. S.
Albert Wallace Cahlan
Frederick Morgan Linscott
Emmet A. Powers
In the School of Liberal Arts; Bachelor of Arts.
Adelaide Melvina Boyd
William Lothio Brandon
Jay Harvey Clemons
Louise Frey
Gertrude Hironymous
Mae Ellen Palmer
Laura Smith
Frederick Eugene Walts
Albert Weston Ward
Mildred Maude Wheeler
Otto Thompson Williams
I further certify that the following students have completed the
course of study and training required in the Normal School three
year course and are entitled to Diplomas of graduation allowing
them a State Teacher's Certificate, grammar grade;
Lillian Amelia Campbell
Lillian Maude Douglas
Ella Cathrine Duffy
Louise Evans
Lucy May Grimes
Edith Frances Hurd
Margaret Blake Hymers
Josephine Marie Kelly
Katherine Glenn Mayberry
Agnes Jean Maxwell
Edith Mc Lear
Leona Mitchell
Kate T. Moore
Mary J. Mulcoy
Hazel Belle Rulison
Augusta May Sacton
I certify further that the following students have completed
the course of study required in the Commerical Department and
are entitled to Diplomas of graduation;
Daniel W. Gault
James S. Giles
Carleton F. Muir
Jean L. Sweetman
Charles A. R. Thompson
Ralph W. Travers
State University, June 8, 1896.
Signed,
Robert Lewers
Secretary of the Faculty
Claims were presented and allowed as follows:
Contingent University Fund
Salaries Prof & instr. 444.16
Salaries Mining Lab 62.50
Salaries Mining Lab 50.00
Salaries Secty Board 25.00
Salaries Janitors, Boys 102.00
Salaries Janitors, Girls 50.00
Student labor 95.15
Reno Water & Light Co. 101.20
J. F. Aitken 26.50
S. O. Wells 143.80
Geo. H. Taylor 13.92
Reno Mill & Lumber 18.18
M. H. Needham 40.00
Richard Brown 1.40
Miller Locke Co. 3.50
Evening Gazette 20.50
Nevada Bell Telephone Co. 5.00
Reno Mercantile Co. 32.30
Nevada Hardware & Supply Co. 16.63
C. J. Brooking 16.65
$1268.39
Library Fund
Hicks Judd Co. 8.07
Building Fund, Girls Dormitory
Mrs. M. H Needham 25.25
Abiel Leonard 10.00
Geo. H. Taylor 37.50
$72.75
Insurance Fund, Tools & Machinery
Richard Brown 17.10
Geo. H. Taylor 30.47
Parker Hamilton 100.40
$147.97
Agricultural and Mechanical College Fund
Salaries Month of May 1598.65
Journal of Comm. 6.00
S. J. Hodgkinson 3.35
Parafine Paint Co. 2.60
Geo. H. Taylor 16.33
Richard Brown 11.50
S. O. Wells 38.50
Parker Hamilton 3.50
A. A. Manning 29.55
$1709.98
No further business appearing, the Board adjourned.
H. L. Fish
President
Geo. H. Taylor
Secretary